BUCKINGHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL
EXPRESSIVE ARTS WEEK 2017
Dear Parents
This year Expressive Arts Week will run from 12th – 16th June 2017. The theme for this
year is ‘Minibeasts!’ Quite literally, a ‘Minibeast’ is a small insect or spider such
as snails, slugs, beetles, centipedes, worms, earwigs, caterpillars etc. Children
will be invited to participate in a range of art and performance categories. There is one
compulsory category – the Art/Painting category, which each boy will complete at
school with Miss Raducca in their Art lessons. You can decide how many other
competitions you wish to enter.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL WORK IS LABELLED CLEARLY ON THE
FRONT WITH THE BOY’S NAME AND CLASS
In the weeks after half term, Class Teachers will be holding heats for the stage events
(Poetry, Singing and Instrumental) and three boys will be chosen to participate in the
Grand Finals during Expressive Arts Week.
Boys are encouraged to enter as many categories as possible. All entries should be
children’s own individual, unaided work. The boy’s name, class and category should be
written on the front of the entry to avoid disqualification.
Please check the categories available overleaf, complete the entry form and return to
Mrs Perin by Wednesday 10th May 2017.
Parent volunteers are also needed for the judging panels each day. If you are willing,
then please let me know on your son’s entry form. All parents are invited to attend any
of the finals. Obviously Parents will not be allowed to judge their own sons.
GRAND FINALS: Parents welcome to attend
Poetry Finals: Monday 12th June at 8.45am
Singing and Dance Finals: Tuesday 13th June at 8.45am
Musical Instrument Finals (Solo and Duets): Wednesday 14th June at 3pm
Art Entries will be on display in our school hall.
Good Luck everyone!
Mrs Stoneman
(Coordinator)
458 Rayners Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 5DT
www.buckprep.org
Tel: 020 8866 2737
Entry Form
(Hand in to Mrs Perin by Wednesday 10th May 2017)
On the chart below please list all of the categories that you wish to enter for Expressive
Arts Week. You can enter as many as you wish. We would like all boys to enter at
least ONE category. Remember you have the whole of Half Term to work on your
entry – or you can start today!
If you are entering a duet musical competition then you must state on your entry the
name of your partner and the instruments you will be playing. Thank you.
Name:
Class:
Dear Mrs Stoneman,
I would like to enter the following categories:
Poetry Recital
Duet Instrument
Name your instrument/partner:
Own Poem Writing
Photography
Theme: Minibeasts
Computer Art
Creative Writing
Solo instrument
(Unaccompanied)
Solo Singing (Unaccompanied)
Name your song:
Clay modelling
Dance
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL WORK IS LABELLED CLEARLY ON THE FRONT WITH
THE BOYS NAME AND CLASS
Parents, please can you help us?:
I would like to be a judge and can attend Assembly on:
(Please tick if you can help us)
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Monday 12th at 8.45am
Tuesday 13th at 8.45am
Wednesday 14th at 3pm
Signed………………………………………
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Art Category
All boys will enter a picture in the Art category which will be completed in school time and
displayed in the Hall ready for Expressive Arts Week.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL WORK IS LABELLED CLEARLY ON THE FRONT WITH
THE BOYS NAME AND CLASS
Categories
Poetry Recital
Please find attached to this letter the poems/rhymes that boys can
learn if they want to enter this category. There will be class heats
with Form Teachers in the week before Expressive Arts Week and
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Finals on Monday 20 June at 8.45am.
Parents are welcome to
attend finals in the Hall. (Reception-Year 6).
Learn at home
Own Poem Writing
Create your own poem about one or many Minibeasts. Write it down.
(Reception-Year 6).
Bring to the Staffroom by Monday 5th June
Creative Writing
Write a story that includes one or more Minibeasts as characters.
What do they do? Where do they go? You choose! You can
illustrate your story too if you wish. (Reception-Year 6).
Bring to the Staffroom by Monday 5th June
Solo Singing
(Unaccompanied)
Solo instrument
(Unaccompanied)
Duet Instrument
Dance
Photography
Theme: Minibeasts
Parents, please help your son to choose and practice a song that has
words that are suitable for performing in front of 3-11 year olds.
Write the name of your song on the entry form. (Reception – Year
6)
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Boys perform a dance to the song of their choice in a style of
their choosing. Parents, please help your son to choose and
practice to a song that, if it has words, is suitable for performing in
front of 3-11 year olds.
Take a photograph within our theme. Dress up a willing member of
your family or a friend as a Minibeasts and take a photograph, or go
out looking in woods and under rocks with an adult and see what
creepy crawlies you can find! (Reception-Year 6). The children must
take the pictures themselves, so cannot be in them! Only one picture
per child. Please print no larger than A5.
Bring to the Staffroom by Monday 5th June
Computer Art
Design a habitat for an insect using a computer ‘paint’ type program.
Bring to the Staffroom by Monday 5th June
Clay modelling
Using modelling clay, plasticine, Fimo, salt dough make a mini beast
model. Write a label to let us know what it is, including your name
and class.
Bring into school between 3.30-4pm on Thursday 8th June for
displaying in the Hall
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL WORK IS LABELLED CLEARLY ON THE
FRONT WITH THE BOY’S NAME AND CLASS
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Poems to learn for Expressive Arts Week 2017
Reception:
Snail
He cannot fly.
He cannot hop.
He cannot run at all.
But you should see
The way he goes
Slowly up the wall.
He cannot skip
Or race about.
He has one way to go;
And as I watched him
I must say
He's good at going slow.
Year One:
Five Busy Honey Bees
Five busy honey bees were resting in the sun.
The first one said, "Let us have some fun."
The second one said, "Where shall it be?"
The third one said, "In the honey tree."
The fourth one said, "Let's make some honey
sweet."
The fifth one said, "With pollen on our feet."
The five little busy bees sang their buzzing tune,
As they worked in the beehive all that afternoon.
Bzzzzzz! Bzzzzzz! Bzzzzzz! Bzzzzzz! Bzzzzzz!
Year Six:
Forgiven
by A. A. Milne
I found a little beetle; so that Beetle was his
name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered just
the same.
I put him in a match-box, and I kept him all the
day ...
And Nanny let my beetle out Yes, Nanny let my beetle out She went and let my beetle out And Beetle ran away.
She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she
did,
She said she wanted matches and she just took
off the lid,
She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to
catch
An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a
match.
We went to all the places which a beetle might be
near,
And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes
to hear,
And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of
shout:
"A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!"
It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be,
And he had a sort of look as if he thought it must be
Me,
And he had a sort of look as if he thought he ought to
say:
"I'm very very sorry that I tried to run away."
And Nanny's very sorry too for you-know-whatshe-did,
And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the
lid,
So Nan and Me are friends, because it's difficult to
catch
An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match.
She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't
mind,
As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's
certain we could find,
If we looked about the garden for the holes
where beetles hid And we'd get another match-box and write
BEETLE on the lid.
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Year 4:
The Insects' World by Ethel Jacobson
Insects are creatures with three pairs of legs,
Some swim, some fly; they lay millions of
eggs.
They don't wear their skeletons in, but out.
They come in three parts. Some are bare;
some have hair.
Their hearts are in back; they circulate air.
They smell with their feelers and taste with
their feet,
And there's scarcely a thing that some insect
won't eat:
Flowers and woodwork and books and rugs,
Overcoats, people, and other bugs.
When five billion trillion keep munching each
day,
It's a wonder the world isn't nibbled away!
Year Five
Firefly Faeries
Luminescent lullabies, fireflies in the night,
Fill the sky with wonderment, each miniature
lamplight.
Bright yellow-green, lustrous sheen, flitting to
and fro,
I wonder if fireflies ever have no place to go.
Beating wings of faerie dreams, magical and
rare,
Do fireflies fly with eyes wide open, in a random
stare?
Elliptical, iridescent light bulbs on their backs,
I think I'd be but half amazed, if I knew all the
facts.
To me, they are small sentinels, for bigger
faerie folk,
Guiding lights when night puts on her dark-blue,
velvet cloak.
Creatures creep, from out of shadows, when the
moon is new,
Firefly faeries light the way. They know just
what to do!
Year 2:
Butterflies are Pretty Things
by Eliza Follen
"Butterflies are pretty things,
Prettier than you or I;
See the colours on his wings;
Who would hurt a butterfly?"
"Softly, softly, girls and boys;
He'll come near us by and by;
Here he is, don't make a noise;—
We'll not hurt you, butterfly."
Not to hurt a living thing,
Let all little children try;
See, again he's on the wing;
Good bye pretty butterfly!
Year 3:
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the
Fly,
'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I've a many curious things to show when you are
there."
Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come
down again."
"I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so
high;
Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider to the
Fly.
"There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets
are fine and thin,
And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!"
Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "for I've often heard it
said,
They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your
bed!"
I would try to catch one in a jar, when just a tot,
Lightning bugs, we called 'em then. Gosh, there
were a lot!
Dancing on the firmament or skimming over
rocks,
Bug or faerie, they are very beautiful to watch.
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